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The Oracle of Amun was a solitary oracle temple located at the Siwa Oasis in Western Egypt near Libya devoted to the Egyptian god Amun-Ra. Although the oasis is known to have been settled since at least the 10th millennium BC, the earliest evidence of any connection with Ancient Egypt is the 26th Dynasty, when a necropolis was established and temple were built sometime between 663 - 535 BC. Prior to arrival of the Greeks with Alexander the Great, Herodotus knew of a "fountain of the Sun" at Siwa that ran coldest in the noontime heat.
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